Emma Willard School Usa

At Emma, our students learn that there is enormous potential and power in being a girl. In our classrooms, on our athletic courts, within science labs, and on stage, life-long lessons are learned in daring to participate, lead, and explore.

“It is our belief that surrounding girls 24/7 with role models who are life-long learners is the secret ingredient needed to build a school culture that is affirming and aspirational, global and intimate, joy-filled and girl-centric. Our community is, quite simply, our home; and we live together in ways that permit the safe exploration of necessary risk-taking so important to building resilient young women.”

–Trudy Hall

MISSION

Honoring its founder’s vision, Emma Willard School proudly fosters in each young woman a love of learning, the habits of an intellectual life, and the character, moral strength, and qualities of leadership to serve and shape her world.

VISION

At times others have tried to push Emma into the traditional boarding school box. And, time and again, our feisty community bridled at the attempts. Today, as we stand on the cusp of the next 200 years at Emma Willard School, we will fully claim what makes an Emma education unlike anything else in the world.

We call it the 2020 Vision and it includes a set of key strategic initiatives, programs, and a personalized curriculum that together will lay the foundation for the Emma Willard School of the future. At its heart, our vision reimagines our founder’s dream for the 21st century: we seek to unleash the potential in each of our girls to shape the world.

Emma will no longer sit humbly in an enlightened corner of the educational world. We will fully embrace who we are and shout it clearly from the top of Mt. Ida. Join us on this journey to build on all that we have achieved, all that we were, and all that we were always meant to be.